Hi!

I was wondering if I will get any erratic results if I do not use 'else' at the end of 'if-elsif-else' statement. I have the following script, which seems to be working file. My input file is very large, I do not want to put an 'else' statement at the end. Is this ok? Thanks. 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;

open  (TRACK1, ">", "track1.txt")      or die "Can't open track1.txt :
+ $!";
open  (TRACK2, ">", "track2.txt")      or die "Can't open track2.txt :
+ $!";
open  (TRACK3, ">", "track32.txt")      or die "Can't open track3.txt 
+: $!";

while (<>) {
    if(/name="track1/ .. /^1_000/){
        print TRACK1;
    }
    elsif(/name="track2/ .. /^5_000/) {
        print TRACK2;
    }
    elsif(/name="track3/ .. /^20_000/) {
        print TRACK3;
    } #no 'else' here.
}

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In reply to if-elsif-else (?) by rnaeye

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